Cadaba

Accepted species 29 Documented here 6 Family Capparaceae

Accepted species 29 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cadaba aphylla (Thunb.) Wild 182 documented
Cadaba fruticosa (L.) Druce 43 documented
Cadaba termitaria N.E.Br. 24 documented
Cadaba trifoliata (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. 6 documented
Cadaba natalensis Sond. 5 documented
Cadaba farinosa Forssk. 3 documented
Cadaba mirabilis Gilg 1 below the evidence gate
Cadaba baccarinii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba barbigera Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba benguellensis Mendes 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba capparoides DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba carneoviridis Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba divaricata Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba gillettii R.A.Graham 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba glaberrima Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba glandulosa Forssk. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba insularis A.G.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba kassasii Chrtek 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba kirkii Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba linearifolia (J.Graham) M.R.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba longifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba madagascariensis Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba parvula Polhill 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba rotundifolia Forssk. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba ruspolii Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba schroeppelii Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba somalensis Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba stenopoda Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Cadaba virgata Bojer 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.